With the iPhone’s dramatic success “it’s pretty difficult to bet against Apple going forward (If you have any good reasons why, we’d like to hear them). And to add to the good news, just in case you forgot, Apple is not a one trick pony,” Ant & Sons writes for SeekingAlpha.
“That is why the bulls can also run with the latest consumer PC survey out from ChangeWave Research which cited a halo effect that could accelerate the momentum in earnings growth. For those of you who don’t remember what it means from your undergrad management class, the halo effect occurs when the positive qualities in one thing gives rise to the perception of similar qualities in related things. In other words, tremendous iPhone sales will result in a bump up in sales of Apple computers,” Ant & Sons writes.
Full article here.
As I posted on Saturday (one day after iDay), I saw 3 people in the King of Prussia Apple Store who bought an iPhone on Friday and were back on Saturday to buy a Mac because of how impressed they were with the iPhone.
The beautiful thing about the halo effect for Apple is that once people start accepting that Macs might be better than what they’ve been using, they’ll start using Macs and conclude that they are in fact better. There’s no going back after that!
OS X’s desktop metaphore needs some major improvements (reinvention) to make it as far ahead of Windows as the iPhone is ahead of other phones. Redmond imitators have put just enough smokes and mirrors in their OS to fool the average customer into thinking that Macs and Windows PCs are similar enough. (this is unfortunate but your average user will fall for it).
Some major differenciator is in order here to really trigger a mass movement of people to the Mac from an iPhone halo effect.
MDN Magic word : last … as iPhone competitors will not.
I see a lot of complaints over the lack of upgrades to Apple platforms. I also read a recent review about how the new “true” quad-chip from AMD seems to be a day-late and a dollar-short. They seem to have limited the processor speed, probably due to heat issues. In the meantime, the article’s writer noted that it was 65 nanometer technology, . . . which now is old hat, since Intel has the Pennryn already in production.
Does that say anything to you?
a large number of doctors / surgeons like myself are locked into blackberrys and dells for everything we do at work.
in fact, a tablet mac driven the way this phone does, would be a gift for the medical profession.
iphone derivatives of various sizes could drive all sort of medical applications and if it is not done by apple, someone in the pc world will copy and continue to force us to use explorer and xp or vista
haha zune “horn” effect